-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [CentOS] Automounting a USB drive From: Fred Smith fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us Date: Sun, February 12, 2017 9:52 pm To: centos@centos.org
On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 06:19:34PM -0700, tdukes@palmettoshopper.com wrote:
Hello,
Been try to use autofs to mount and unmount a usb flashdrive.
I've never had to do anything at all to make this work,... I insert the USB device, wait a few seconds, and voila!
are you trying this because you can't get it to work the "normal" way, or is this simply an educational experience?
Fred
Its not mounting on its own as it did in 6.8.
If I click on it in gnome, it mounts but REAR won't backup to it.
If i manually mount it from a terminal, I have read/write access.
Haven't been able to get a backup since I upgraded back in mid-January.
On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 10:11 PM, tdukes@palmettoshopper.com wrote:
If i manually mount it from a terminal, I have read/write access.
Seems a permission issue. su to root after the "auto" mount and take a look. If you can see your file or can write a touch file then your user may not be in the necessary owner/group to view/write to the structure. Seen similar problems in upgrades... same user but the UID changed in the upgrade and blinded the current user to older files that were preserved. A simple chmod command from root fixed the issue to restore proper ownership. Just a wag, but sometimes it's the little things.
-- Fred
-----Original Message----- From: CentOS [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of fred roller Sent: Monday, February 13, 2017 12:10 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Automounting a USB drive
On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 10:11 PM, tdukes@palmettoshopper.com wrote:
If i manually mount it from a terminal, I have read/write access.
Seems a permission issue. su to root after the "auto" mount and take a
look.
If you can see your file or can write a touch file then your user may not
be in
the necessary owner/group to view/write to the structure. Seen similar problems in upgrades... same user but the UID changed in the upgrade and blinded the current user to older files that were preserved.
A
simple chmod command from root fixed the issue to restore proper ownership. Just a wag, but sometimes it's the little things.
-- Fred
Let me add this which I failed to mention.
This was a fresh install as a "Server with Desktop". I have been adding packages as needed.
Week before last when working on this, I was looking through the logs and found REAR need syslinux which wasn't installed. I may not have all the packages installed I need. I run REAR as a cron job around 2AM. If I did a reboot/restart and forgot to manually mount the USB drive or forgot to click on it gnom, which is usually the case, I don't get a backup.
It ran last night and I was OK, but I'd still need to find out why its not mounting by itself.
Thanks
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